Northeast Family Services of New Hampshire, Inc.
 

Northeast Family Services (NFS) provides home or community based, wraparound, treatment for children and parents in need of services, with an intensive focus on keeping families together or working towards reunification. Our services include individual and family counseling, skill building, support, advocacy, and resource connection, to help manage the family’s future functioning in the home and community. Northeast Family Services prides itself in providing high quality, evidence-based treatment to families.   

Roadmap To Reunification
 

Bringing everyone together to build relationships that respect birth parents, offer compassion, and encourage regular visitation and communication with the birth family.

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Roadmap to Reunification facilitators bring all family members, supports, placement providers, and team members to the table when a child is removed by DCYF.

 

The goal of Roadmap to Reunification is to identify what tasks need to be accomplished in order to:

• Make connections

• Establish relationships

• Increase parenting time

• Achieve faster reunification

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What to Expect:

A Roadmap to Reunification specialist will contact you to schedule an initial "Ice Breaker" meeting within 10 days of the removal of the child/children. Following the Ice Breaker meeting, if reunification has not yet occurred, you can expect check ins every 30 days (by phone or in person). After 6 months, the Specialists are available to consult on cases that need continued support.  One specialist is assigned to every DOYF district office.

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Ice Breaker Meetings: 

The Ice Breaker is a tool, facilitated by the Roadmap Specialist, during the first meeting between the birth parents and the caregiver that is designed to build relationships and allow the birth parents to share crucial information about their child. Ice Breakers can only occur if both the birth parent and caregiver are present.

 

Roadmap Specialists will support conversations regarding:

• Parenting time between birth parents and children/youth

• Relative connections and supports for children/youth

• Any barriers to reunification

ISO Program

(Individual Service Option)

 

ISO cases include a masters or bachelors level clinician and a bachelors level case manager. ISO cases include multiple sessions per week, both individual and family counseling, case management and supervised family time when appropriate. Frequency depends on request from DCYF but will include multiple days per week with flexible hours. NFS staff will complete a comprehensive assessment and the Child Adolescent Needs Survey (CANS) to guide an individual treatment plan on each case. ISO families have access to NFS’s after hours on call phone number in case of crisis. At this time, NFS does not have ISO foster homes so if respite is needed, NFS staff will work closely with the family to identify natural resources and with DCYF to identify a respite home and support the child/youth while in respite.  In addition to traditional ISO cases, NFS also offers ISO specialized budgets for Independent Living Cases for youth aging out of foster care.

HBT Program

(Home Based Therapy)

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NFS provides master’s level clinicians or bachelors level clinicians with 5+ years’ experience working with children and families. Depending on the needs identify at referral, HBT may utilize a bachelors level case manager. Frequency depends on request from DCYF but will include multiple days per week with flexible hours. NFS staff will complete a comprehensive assessment and the Child Adolescent Needs Survey (CANS) to guide an individual treatment plan on each case. HBT families have access to NFS’s after hours on call phone number in case of crisis.

CHS Program

(Child Health Support)

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NFS provides bachelor’s level case managers for child health support cases. Supervised family time including before, during and after parent coaching, intensive parenting education, support and encouragement, direct interactions with the children and families and resource connection. Frequency depends on request from DCYF but will include multiple days per week with flexible hours, including nights and weekends. NFS staff will complete a comprehensive assessment and the Child Adolescent Needs Survey (CANS) to guide an individual treatment plan for each family. CHS families also have the same access as all other case levels to NFS’s after hours on call phone number in case of crisis.